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30-Oct-2009, 01:33 PM #1
Trick or Tweet? Malware Abundant in Twitter URLs
Trick or Tweet? Malware Abundant in Twitter URLs.


As many as one in every 500 web addresses posted on Twitter lead to sites hosting malware, according to researchers at Kaspersky Labs who have deployed a tool that examines URLs circulating in tweets.

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That is bad and they need to watch over the site better and block out sites.
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31-Oct-2009, 10:05 AM #4
I treat FaceBook, MySpace, and Twitter like the plague.
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